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Helicopters 'attack Syria border' 'US aircraft attack Syria border'
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Unidentified helicopters have carried out an attack inside Syria along its border with Iraq, Syrian media says. American helicopters have carried out an attack inside Syria along its border with Iraq, Syrian media says.
The official Syrian news agency Sana said the raid took place in the Bou Kamal border area, in eastern Syria. The official Syrian news agency Sana said the raid took place in the Abu Kamal border area, in eastern Syria.
One report said that the helicopters were American, but there is no independent confirmation. It quoted residents as saying that the attack targeted a house in the area in which a man and his four sons and two workers died. There is no confirmation.
The Sana news agency quoted residents as saying that the attack targeted a house in the area in which a man and his four sons and two workers died. Another report, by the private TV channel Al-Dunia, said that nine people had been killed and 14 wounded.
It said that an unknown number of American helicopters attacked the village of al-Sukkiraya, east of the capital. It did not say when the attack happened.
"We are in the process of investigating this," Sgt Brooke Murphy, a US military spokesman, told the AFP news agency in Baghdad.